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Welcome to Episode 3, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware. For an overview of this riveting and not-quite-Emmy-worthy blog series, check out our last blog in this series ( Business Value Need) here and the Overview blog here. This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Anita Rass Wan and Roger LeBlanc “Houston, we have a problem.” This is the quintessential statement of the *expletive* moment that throws all the participants in a solution into problem resolution mode. In the... [More]

Sometimes it feels like almost everything we used to do (and thought was so very important), just doesn’t fit anymore. The times they are a-changin’ everywhere. For instance, in the past we spent a lot of time reviewing the capabilities of tools before deciding to even kick the tires. The “explore” and “experiment” phases of tool selection could be quite long. We would have a list of prioritized requirements and if the tool didn’t measure up on paper, we wouldn’t look any further. We... [More]

This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan Ever jump into a TV series in the middle of a season? Welcome to Episode 2, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware. For an overview of this riveting and not-quite-Emmy-worthy blog series, check out the overview blog here . We might rightly call this scenario “Democratic DevOps”. It’s the basic starting point, an end-to-end scenario that treats planning, development, testing, deployment and... [More]

This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan. We are interested in getting feedback on how these scenarios could help drive customer conversations when introducing the Middleware portfolio in support of their DevOps initiatives. More details on tooling support to deploy each of these scenarios can be found here Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts that will introduce DevOps scenarios for Middleware. Building middleware applications is challenging... [More]

Last week, IBM® announced the release of Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 6.0 . Among the more exciting introductions in the new version is ‘Global Configuration Management’ (GCM) a feature set that can take your DevOps goal to the next level. As you know, DevOps is about being quicker and more flexible - quicker in getting product features to customers; and flexible in catering to multiple customer requirements at the same time. The first requires automation and the second parallel... [More]

Experts from IBM, Scaled Agile, Inc. and Telstra Corporation will host a Google Hangout video chat on July 1, 2015 to discuss the many benefits of adopting SAFe and a DevOps approach and to provide a few tips to help get you started. The recap post of the Hangout is live on the IBM Middleware blog: http://ibm.co/1LWlDd0 . DevOps and the Path to Better Agile Development 7:30 PM EST, July 1, 2015 Moderator: Kelli Houston . Agile Transformation Lead, IBM Panelists: Tony Christensen , GM/Agile Competency Lead, Telstra... [More]

We discussed in my previous blogs that DevOps is a culture requiring the orchestrated functioning of multiple stakeholders in an organization – development, operations, user assistance, and customer relations, to name a few. Today, I dwell on the role of information development (ID) in the DevOps orchestra. As we know, DevOps is best suited to situations where the need to respond to customers quickly manifests itself in the continuous delivery model. There are two kinds of changes that this software development cycle... [More]

A couple of months ago at our Interconnect conference, I was on a panel that led to an interesting discussion with a customer. The panel was on “Shift Left Testing”, but I had also introduced the idea of moving some testing to production. The customer said to me, “so some testing is shift-left & some is shift-right.” For me it was an “aha” moment crystallizing things I’ve been thinking a lot about and I’m co-opting the term. Indeed, that’s exactly what we need to do when... [More]

Are you looking for informative webcasts on the Scaled Agile Framework? Check out the new SAFe webcast page ! Note: This page is also linked to from the SAFe landing page . Take Care, Kelli Houston Agile/DevOps Solution Offering Manager

With the general availability of Rational Team Concert V6.0, you will now have access to the SAFe ® V3.0 Program process template in RTC. This raises the question: “Can this template be used in Rational Team Concert 5.0.2 or do we have to wait?” The template itself cannot be used in a environment with an older version of RTC. However, we have published RTC SAFe Migration Guidelines to help you apply the very same configurations in your older RTC environment to take advantage of SAFe that we have implemented in the process... [More]